Fluttershy Fan wrote:I have been quite depressed for the last few months because I was ashamed that I clop and as a respected member of the online and local brony community It killed me that I had to hide it, to protect my own and the fandom's reputation. Even the few people I knew who clopped seemed to not want to talk about it even in private. I guessed because just like myself they thought they were trying to bring cloppers into the spotlight to they could mock them, or were just kidding about liking pony porn. I did not become a clopper until I had been in the brony fandom for 4 months and accidently come across some NSFW pony art. I used to be vigilant about people keeping that stuff away from me, I never disliked cloppers or furies or most people with strange tastes I just didn't want to see it personally and hoped they kept me from having to see it.

I thought I was a depraved sicko. But today I have been reading a bit about other peoples reasons for why they clop and they brought up a lot of points that I related to. But now I have created an online persona separate from my known real and online name. So that I can research this and start to regain some personal dignity and be able to talk about it.

It was after reading a topic on reddit's /clopclop and some threads here that I started to figure out what was going on in my own head. I am just one of many people with a random fetish that is beyond my control.

Answering this post in reddit helped me to write down, explain and figure out why I found cartoon ponies attractive. I think I finally figured it out and maybe some of you can relate to it.

"Hi all, I'm not so much a clopper as am just intriguied by your community after I stumbled onto your forum and this post. I'd also like to say that I'm not a judgemental person. While I personally dont clop I have a whole host of bizarre fetishes and have always been intruiged by the sexual perversions of others.Alright, so, question time:Would it be safe to assume most if not all cloppers have a furry fetish?Do you consider pony's to be "lumped together" with anthropomorphized furrys?What percentage of the community would you guess uses ponys for the vast majority of his or her masturbatory needs? Which is to say, they almost always use ponys when at the computer and even when he or she is away from the computer and just using imagination they are still thinking about ponys.Would you say virtually everyone in /r/clopclop watches and enjoys MLP?If you personally enjoy watching MLP, do you find yourself fantasizing or have otherwise sexual thoughts while watching the show?I appreciate any and all input."

These were my answers.

Would it be safe to assume most if not all cloppers have a furry fetish? Possibly, I find furry ponies hot, but I have yet be attracted to other cartoon animals. Oh wait Sally from Sonic The Hedgehog. But yeah it's rare. I'm nearly always attracted if it a MLP pony. Real animals? no never.Do you consider pony's to be "lumped together" with anthropomorphized furrys?It seems common. But for me the more human it looks the less attractive. But I think you will find that ponies faces are very human looking. I tend to be more attracted to faces then to bodies.What percentage of the community would you guess uses ponys for the vast majority of his or her masturbatory needs? Which is to say, they almost always use ponys when at the computer and even when he or she is away from the computer and just using imagination they are still thinking about ponys.At the moment I clop 100% of the time. Before that it was people with cute human faces.Would you say virtually everyone in /r/clopclop watches and enjoys MLP? I would think so.If you personally enjoy watching MLP, do you find yourself fantasizing or have otherwise sexual thoughts while watching the show? Yes and Yes.

Then in response to this persons response. I came to a further conclusion.

I won't speculate on what anyone other than myself feels about these issues but I will tell you what I, personally feel.No, I don't at least.Again no, personally I don't find furies appealing, especially anthropomorphized furies or ponies. It is a sort of uncanny valley thing for me. For the same reason I don't like anthropomorhpized ponies unless they are fully human. Ponies with breasts or hands don't appeal to me. It needs to be all or none.For me clopping is a sometimes deal. Ponies are not a large part of my "interests" but hold a significant portion. It tends to run in cycles where one "topic" holds my interest for a while before I move on. Variety is the spice of life.I do, and I would assume that if you are interested in pony porn you would be interested in the characters. It is sort of a specialized interest.No. I keep them separate in my mind. But I am one that very rarely has sexual thoughts. I have to consciously enter that sort of world.I would be very careful attempting to draw any generalizations about cloppers. Human sexuality is so complex as to make really the task impossible.Really what I think you are interested in why. For me personally I don't find rule 34 ponies to be all that interesting. What I like are the clopfics and I think I can speculate as to why. I like the characters. The same thing that draws me to the show draws me to the clopfics. Most porn focuses on the physical act of copulation, which while interesting I find to be shallow. There are only so many ways you can put tab A into slot B. To be interesting to me I have to be able to identify with the characters.Hope that helps. I consider clopping to be a guilty pleasure. I am not particularly proud of it but neither am I ashamed of it. As far as I am concerned it is a fairly normal "perversion."

"I see where you are coming from. I personally prefer to clop to erotic fanfiction then to pictures. They can be so much more detailed then a still picture.Way back when I was in the Final Fantasy fandom, I used to fap to my favourite female characters. Garnet and Rinoa especially. I think personality plays a big part of attraction for me. I have fapped over real women I've had a crush on and knew IRL. But general porn with anonymous women just doesn't do it for me.Come to think of it the ponies that I most like to clop to are the ones I would want to have a real relationship with. Twilight and Fluttershy. Rainbow Dash however is normally a boner killer for me."

Then to my surprise a dark clopfic I wrote expressing some of my own fetishes. Has been getting really popular. I wrote the first 2 chapters in anger, depression and drunkenness so it got a lot of dislikes initially, but then since I proofread and edited it in a normal state of mind. It's like have been over coming the dislikes.

Fluttershy Fan wrote:I have been quite depressed for the last few months because I was ashamed that I clop and as a respected member of the online and local brony community It killed me that I had to hide it, to protect my own and the fandom's reputation. Even the few people I knew who clopped seemed to not want to talk about it even in private. I guessed because just like myself they thought they were trying to bring cloppers into the spotlight to they could mock them, or were just kidding about liking pony porn. I did not become a clopper until I had been in the brony fandom for 4 months and accidently come across some NSFW pony art. I used to be vigilant about people keeping that stuff away from me, I never disliked cloppers or furies or most people with strange tastes I just didn't want to see it personally and hoped they kept me from having to see it.

I thought I was a depraved sicko. But today I have been reading a bit about other peoples reasons for why they clop and they brought up a lot of points that I related to. But now I have created an online persona separate from my known real and online name. So that I can research this and start to regain some personal dignity and be able to talk about it.

It was after reading a topic on reddit's /clopclop and some threads here that I started to figure out what was going on in my own head. I am just one of many people with a random fetish that is beyond my control.

Answering this post in reddit helped me to write down, explain and figure out why I found cartoon ponies attractive. I think I finally figured it out and maybe some of you can relate to it.

"Hi all, I'm not so much a clopper as am just intriguied by your community after I stumbled onto your forum and this post. I'd also like to say that I'm not a judgemental person. While I personally dont clop I have a whole host of bizarre fetishes and have always been intruiged by the sexual perversions of others.Alright, so, question time:Would it be safe to assume most if not all cloppers have a furry fetish?Do you consider pony's to be "lumped together" with anthropomorphized furrys?What percentage of the community would you guess uses ponys for the vast majority of his or her masturbatory needs? Which is to say, they almost always use ponys when at the computer and even when he or she is away from the computer and just using imagination they are still thinking about ponys.Would you say virtually everyone in /r/clopclop watches and enjoys MLP?If you personally enjoy watching MLP, do you find yourself fantasizing or have otherwise sexual thoughts while watching the show?I appreciate any and all input."

These were my answers.

Would it be safe to assume most if not all cloppers have a furry fetish? Possibly, I find furry ponies hot, but I have yet be attracted to other cartoon animals. Oh wait Sally from Sonic The Hedgehog. But yeah it's rare. I'm nearly always attracted if it a MLP pony. Real animals? no never.Do you consider pony's to be "lumped together" with anthropomorphized furrys?It seems common. But for me the more human it looks the less attractive. But I think you will find that ponies faces are very human looking. I tend to be more attracted to faces then to bodies.What percentage of the community would you guess uses ponys for the vast majority of his or her masturbatory needs? Which is to say, they almost always use ponys when at the computer and even when he or she is away from the computer and just using imagination they are still thinking about ponys.At the moment I clop 100% of the time. Before that it was people with cute human faces.Would you say virtually everyone in /r/clopclop watches and enjoys MLP? I would think so.If you personally enjoy watching MLP, do you find yourself fantasizing or have otherwise sexual thoughts while watching the show? Yes and Yes.

Then in response to this persons response. I came to a further conclusion.

I won't speculate on what anyone other than myself feels about these issues but I will tell you what I, personally feel.No, I don't at least.Again no, personally I don't find furies appealing, especially anthropomorphized furies or ponies. It is a sort of uncanny valley thing for me. For the same reason I don't like anthropomorhpized ponies unless they are fully human. Ponies with breasts or hands don't appeal to me. It needs to be all or none.For me clopping is a sometimes deal. Ponies are not a large part of my "interests" but hold a significant portion. It tends to run in cycles where one "topic" holds my interest for a while before I move on. Variety is the spice of life.I do, and I would assume that if you are interested in pony porn you would be interested in the characters. It is sort of a specialized interest.No. I keep them separate in my mind. But I am one that very rarely has sexual thoughts. I have to consciously enter that sort of world.I would be very careful attempting to draw any generalizations about cloppers. Human sexuality is so complex as to make really the task impossible.Really what I think you are interested in why. For me personally I don't find rule 34 ponies to be all that interesting. What I like are the clopfics and I think I can speculate as to why. I like the characters. The same thing that draws me to the show draws me to the clopfics. Most porn focuses on the physical act of copulation, which while interesting I find to be shallow. There are only so many ways you can put tab A into slot B. To be interesting to me I have to be able to identify with the characters.Hope that helps. I consider clopping to be a guilty pleasure. I am not particularly proud of it but neither am I ashamed of it. As far as I am concerned it is a fairly normal "perversion."

"I see where you are coming from. I personally prefer to clop to erotic fanfiction then to pictures. They can be so much more detailed then a still picture.Way back when I was in the Final Fantasy fandom, I used to fap to my favourite female characters. Garnet and Rinoa especially. I think personality plays a big part of attraction for me. I have fapped over real women I've had a crush on and knew IRL. But general porn with anonymous women just doesn't do it for me.Come to think of it the ponies that I most like to clop to are the ones I would want to have a real relationship with. Twilight and Fluttershy. Rainbow Dash however is normally a boner killer for me."

Then to my surprise a dark clopfic I wrote expressing some of my own fetishes. Has been getting really popular. I wrote the first 2 chapters in anger, depression and drunkenness so it got a lot of dislikes initially, but then since I proofread and edited it in a normal state of mind. It's like have been over coming the dislikes.